#hawkling

[lgvalenzuela]

My little necromancer

[thebekashow]

[SMOOCHES THE BIRB BABYSS FOREHEAD]

YESS DA SMOOCHES

[askgiantbobvelseb]

SMH PAY CHILD SUPPORT

[almaverses]

anders and his hawklings having a spa day (hawke was not invited. no moms allowed event)

[gollancz]

MANCHESTER (and surrounding county and metropolitan areas)! Do you love epic fantasy, with unique magic systems, phenomenal world-building, and rich characters? Do you love horror that is grounded in social issues, representative of the best and worst of society, and haunts the shadows in the corner of your brain? Do you love watching someone with mild-to-moderate social anxiety attempting to host an event?

On 31st May, @jonnywaistcoat - Jonathan Sims himself - and the wonderful Rebecca Zahabi will be chatting about their books at Blackwell's on Oxford Street. These two creative powerhouses will be sharing their wisdom from 6:30pm. Tickets are £3.00, or free with an order of THE HAWKLING or FAMILY BUSINESS.

Rebecca Zahabi's first book in the series, THE COLLARBOUND, is also currently £2.99 on Kindle, so you can be ready and raring for THE HAWKLING and this event.

Jonathan Sim's first novel, THIRTEEN STOREYS, is currently on Kindle at £4.99 as well, for getting your spooky on.

[chaoticgoodit]

ADIN HILL PLAYOFF SHUTOUT, BABY!!! 🤩🎉

[hazel-shithappens]

Spoilers for The Lightborn (from the series Tales of the Edge)

Because I wanted to make some memes even though not many people now these books (QwQ)

[rathma]

little baby hawk in my brain today

[freedomscall]

Carver isn't the worst he's had to deal with, though Anders does continue to find it somewhat strange that a man so familiar with mages would refuse the instant relief that his magic could bring.

❝ So VERY manly. ❞ An equally sarcastic tease in the face of the warrior's annoyance, ❝ Almost as if you weren't getting the wind knocked out of you? ❞

The little wound the young adult likely had certainly wouldn't be the worst of what he'd seen either, with the small amount of blotted blood that already stained their top. It would be so easy for the blond to let it go, to just allow Carver to tend to himself if that's what he desired. Let him follow in Hawke's foot steps back to their uncle's home, worry his mother, sleep with a sore spot for days to come. What did Anders care, REALLY?

Yet…

❝ Just let me, it's what I'm here for. ❞ He still finds himself protesting back, tips of his fingers already AGLOW with healing magic. ❝ Not like it's somehow manlier to go without when it can just be done now. ❞

" It was a manly battle cry is all. " annoyance ties his tongue, and sarcasm drips heavily from it. He had taken rather dull blade to the ribs. Surprising, he thinks, that something so blunt and un-cared for could still pierce skin. Yet here is he.

Bleeding.

And Annoyed.

" It will heal on its own--- quit fussing!" the hard edge of his tone is punctuated only by the twitch of his brow, and the beaded dribbles of red that leech from the wool of his shirt.

[huskynotwolf]

When I first met a Watcher — Scar

From my Fanfic Watchers and Hunters on Quotev

The world is weird. 

Like, for example, the day me and Martyn found a Watcher. 

We were, as usual, patrolling around to see if there is anything wrong. Martyn was complaining about it being boring, but Xisuma told him he had to otherwise, so he couldn’t argue with that. Impulse said he had other jobs, so he didn’t join us.

I mumbled as I went down to weaponry to get myself crossbows because I thought it would come in handy. I found Scott enchanting shields and tridents in a corner, with Cleo next to him, holding an axe. “Hey come on, don’t stare,” Martyn mumbled, grabbed a bow and a stack of arrows and started up the stairs. Cleo gave me a brief wave before walking away to another chest. 

We were walking through the forest, with Martyn murdering any chicken we came about. “Look, I don’t know the point of hunting Watchers. They’re not really messing with us, right?” He grumbled. I elbowed him hard in the ribs and grunted. “You never know when they attack. They hit hard.” I touched the long scars on my face. It was from a hawkling Watcher a bit back ago, when I got attacked by it and then my buddies had to save me. I kept my distance ever since, but I won’t hesitate to kill if I got attacked. 

There was a rustle of leaves up front, and Martin stopped torturing a nearby rabbit. “What’s that?” He perked up, walking closer to me. I pulled out my crossbow, just in case, when a swishing sound followed by the hiss of a creeper came behind up. I jumped and tried to pull Martyn away, when a multicolour blur shot past me, slammed into the creeper and knocked it into a tree. It screeched, then vanished in a puff of smoke. 

“Whew! That was close. Careful next time, travellers. Creepers are nasty in my forest.” He said, waving a hand and sweeping leaves off his red shirt. He had brown beady eyes and a pair of jeans, but sprouting behind him was a pair of giant, red-yellow-green parrot wings sprouting behind him. He had bird talons instead of legs as well. 

There is a Watcher right in front of us. 

“Ahhh!” Martyn screamed and lashed out his sword. The Watcher yelped and leapt up a tree, claws scraping against the branch. “Woah woah woah woah woah… I save your lives and now you wanna kill me? Wow, should’ve just left you there.” The Watcher mumbled. Martyn held his sword high. “Gimme a reason not to kill you right now.” He growled, poison seeping in every word. “Eh, I know you won’t. Anyway, be grateful. Now get out of my forest.” He flicked his hand in a ‘shoo’ motion. 

I raised my voice. “Wait, Martin, stop.” I pushed his sword downwards. “Sorry. You have a name?” I turned towards the mystery guy that apparently owns this forest. “What’s yours?” He replied, playing with a stick. “Scar. That’s Martyn. We’re Hunters.” I said, trying to keep my excitement. I’ve never managed to talk to a Watcher for more than thirty seconds! Most of the time they’re trying to kill me!

”Grian,” he mused. “I’d better be off. Just in case someone tries to find my base and steal all of my stuff.” He flapped his wings. Martyn stared at his wings in awe as he stretched them. “Bye!” Grian laughed and launched off the branch, sending leaves and sticks showering down onto the floor. 

“Well, should we tell Xisuma?” Martyn asked, shaking his head. “Nah. Tryin’ keep that secret.” I mumbled. He shook me. “Dude! How can you be so calm about that?!” I only held up a finger. “He seems harmless.” He slapped my hand. “Hey! You know what happened to your face? No one wants that again.” He growled. “You’re the one who said nothing will happen.” I pointed out. He scratched his head then looked down. “Yeah whatever.”

”Let’s get back to base.”

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[lgvalenzuela]

I'm on my Hawke family bullcrap again

Of course they're all cat people

[whump-side]

Whump Challenge

I got tagged by @whump-captain to participate in the challenge. If you see this and want to participate, feel free! Don't by shy~ 1. Favorite whump trope(s)? Anything that'll make a whumpee bleed from the side. Shot, stabbed, you name it !

2. Least favorite whump trope(s)? I'm really not into whump with a whumper or pet whump. 

3. Top 3 whump scenes and why? No.6 episode 11. Oh man, this whole episode goes so hard, if you know, you know Detective Conan Chapter 251-254. I remember obsessively rereading these chapters as a 8yo kid No third place because there are 100 scenes fighting for the 3rd place in my head so I'll leave this empty

4. Top 3 characters to whump and why? Lance from Voltron. I love goofballs getting whumped. The switch between their goofy personalities to just pain, yes. Kaeya from Genshin. If anyone has good whump fanfics, please send them this way. This man is a walking whumpee Can't think of a 3rd character so I'll say my OC Birb 

5. Favorite fandom for whump (show, series, etc)? Anime/manga, animated show (Voltron, Avatar, in these kind of styles where adults look like adults) or Webtoons 

6. Do you prefer written or watchable whump? Watchable but I also enjoy written 

7. Do you also like hurt/comfort? Hell yes ! 

8. What do you think the difference between hurt/comfort and whump is? Hurt/comfort : gentle pat pat to soothe the pain Whump : stab stab to do the pain 

9. How would you explain whump to someone who’s not familiar with it? Angst but add pain, blood and injuries to it. 

10. Is there any old whump you particularly enjoy? (say, pre 2000?) It's gonna be 2000 exactly : Mulan. The moment when she realised she got hurt by Shan Yu. 

11. Why do you think you like whump? Good question it's always been there since I was really young. 

12. When did you realize you liked whump? Never, as mentioned before, it kinda was there all the time. 

13. Favorite posts with whump (gifsets, picspams, etc) ✨Art✨ 

14. Are you “out” to people in real life? My bff know that I love "angst" especially when it's bloody. I think I told them once that I found the whump community, but I'm sure I didn't say the word whump specifically 

15. How did you find the whump community? I was probably looking at "injured" or similar tags until I think I found an anime whump gifset and connected the dots when I saw the tag "whump" 

16. Any unusual mediums you like for whump (plays, music, vlogs, etc)? Stock photos. With enough imaginations, lots of things can be whumpy. It's like using a filter but with your brain. 

17. Any meta about whump you’ve been dying to share? None that I think of at the moment. 

18. Whump fic(s) you’d love to see? I'd love to read some Thoma whump from Genshin Impact. Haven't check now if there's something new with him 

19. Whump you’re looking forward to? (Maybe something teased or something you haven’t seen yet?) I am well fed with whump at the moment 👌 

20. Top 3 favorite whump fics? Oh god. I never save fics and then regret it when I want to read them again. The Purity of Sin by IcyPanther. I red it in one sitting before going to bed and then I realized it's 4am when I was finished There was a fanfic with Lance getting pneumonia while being stranded with Shiro and I can't find it ;-; A fic with my fem!Hawkle and Fenris my bff wrote me a few years ago 👌

21. Tropes you think are overdone? Whumper/Whumpee and captive whump. Let whumpees be hurt by nature in the wild far from any humans for a change. 

22. Tropes you think we could use more of? Environmental whump or whump without a whumper. 

23. Favorite sites/archives for consuming whump? Tumblr, AO3, Pinterest, Youtube 

24. Have your whump preferences changed recently? If so, why? Recently nothing has changed, but I'm always down to explore new tropes. Like I did with a tiny whumpee some times ago

[agentsterling]

liesforaliving​:

“I appreciate it. I know it’s…. a hard habit to break.” She didn’t need to go into detail anyways, which was just fine. Really, she’d mostly been using scars as an excuse, which probably wasn’t good, but that wasn’t a conversation for today. “I can call you whatever you’d like. Bobbi is technically a nickname anyways. But Erikson it is.”

A soft laugh escaped her. “Well, clearly you haven’t been down to the lab level lately. Coffee down there is shit.” She should fix that, but instead she just hasn’t drank as much coffee, and stuck to tea. “I’m surprised Clint hasn’t broken into my lab to taunt me, actually…. Maybe he likes you better.”

“I’d like that. I picked the name. It’s nice to hear people use it.” He gave her a gentle smile. Not many knew his real name or that it wasn’t, in fact, Erikson Sterling. Still, he loved his name change. It reminded him of his mother.

“Remind me to avoid the lab then. You can escape up here anytime you wish. Coffee is the second most important resource in SHIELD and I cannot stand to hear that the other departments might be cutting corners. This entire enterprise will collapse if this isn’t rectified.” At her comment about Barton liking him more Sterling laughed. “Well, he never married me so you’ve already got the advantage. Unless you ask the weird Hawkling shippers scattered around the base. They’ll swear we’ve been wed for years.” 

At least the rumors about him being married to the copier had died with the old base. He’d take Hawkling over that nonsense again.

@agentsterling only kinda asked for a thing

She knocked gently on his door, before leaning in the doorframe. "Ah, you're Sterling. I maybe have popped by to drop some paperwork off, myself, rather than sending a newbie, this time."

Bobbi had heard about him, of course. Stories travelled. "Bobbi Morse." She pushed off 5he door to put the files on his desk and shake his hand, if he was willing to take it.

[askgiantbobvelseb]

Smh be a woman and accept your child

[almaverses]

these are my handers hawklings! marlene (or marly as people call her) on the left and heidi on the right. marlene (here aged 5) is the typical younger sister. always a step behind her sister and believing herself invincible. she has no off switch, can't sit still and is always covered in some type of grime. heidi (here aged 8) is the reasonable older sister, she's sensitive and emotional and is always making sure everyone has a fair go. she idolises her father, wherever anders is she's usually found clinging to him.

[gollancz]

Happy Publication day to THE HAWKLING!

Book two of Rebecca Zahabi's phenomenal Tales From The Edge trilogy is out today.

Pick it up if you're into:

Epic fantasy with unique magic systems

Fantasy written by women of colour, featuring POC main characters

Fantasy languages drawn from real world linguistics that aren't Latin

Very literal takes on the term 'psychological warfare'

Reluctant allies

Critiques on ruling classes, social structure and the systems that support them